Didn’t they used to see how many people they could cram into a VW back in the ’60s?
Crusty’s been working on 1107 pretty much non-stop since it returned to DDRHQ. He was joined this weekend by Nick, Toby and Rosh. We have 34 days til the race.
The hood acts like a parabolic mirror, heating Nick, who was welding on it, to about 200 degrees.
Nick, the newest member of the team, focused on welding, mostly to repair tears in the body and fenders, strengthening support for the new fuel cell location and patching the hole in the hood where the fuel cell filler used to be.
White is the new black.
The interior of the car gets pretty trashed during races. Rosh took the lead on adding another coat of Rustoleum Gloss White. You can always tell a new Class 11 team because their paint job is perfect. That lasts about one minute into a race.
Toby updates our wiring harness, which uses conduit from Home Depot.
With the fuel cell in place, we’ll start adding the fuel pump, oil accumulator and assorted other stuff that requires electricity. It will go a lot faster with an actual diagram of the wiring.
Another big work day on Saturday and a lot more to report. Waiting to get confirmation from SCORE that we will be 1107 for the Baja 1000.